Crystal structure of Cu2ZnGe(S1-xSex)4 solid solution

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Cu2ZnGeSe4 (CZGSe) and Cu2ZnGeS4 (CZGS), which contain only earth abundant elements, are promising materials for thin film solar cell devices with efficiencies of 8.4 % (CZGSe). Electronic properties of the material are triggered by intrinsic point defects. Our group showed using neutron diffraction that CZGSe adopts the kesterite type structure. For CZGS only powder X-ray diffraction data are found in literature so far, which indicate that CZGS crystallizes in the stannite type structure at room temperatures and in the wurtz-stannite type structure at high temperatures. We plan to use neutron diffraction, which is necessary to allow us the determination of the distribution of the electronical similar cations Cu+, Zn2+ and Ge4+ in the crystal structure and therefore intrinsic point defects in Cu2ZnGe(SxSe1-x)4 with x vayring from 0 to 1. This is important to gain deeper insights into the structural characteristics and to get a profound understanding of structure-property relationships.

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PID https://hdl.handle.net/21.11151/hb64-in9a
Related Identifier IsCompiledBy https://doi.org/10.5442/NI000002
Metadata Access https://data.helmholtz-berlin.de/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:data.helmholtz-berlin.de:inv/7331
Provenance
Instrument E9 - Fine Resolution Powder Diffractometer (FIREPOD),
Publisher Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Contributor Schorr, Susan; Gurieva, Galina; Niedenzu, Sara; Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Publication Year 2024
Rights Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal; https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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Resource Type Investigation; Collection
Size 572.23 MiB
Discipline Other
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-02-08T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-02-12T08:01:05Z